


You can hold down the Alt key and then type a number on the keyboard to display the corresponding Alt code for that number. To insert a delta symbol, change the font to Symbol and then type the letter D in a cell. In the Ribbon, choose Home > Font, and then choose Wingdings from the Font drop-down box.To insert a sad face in Excel, type the letter L in a cell.Here is an example of typing a different symbol with Wingdings: Notice that the smiley is displayed in the formula bar as the letter J however, the font has now changed to Wingdings.Īnother way to insert a smiley in Excel is to type “J” in the cell and then change the font to Wingdings. Click Close to close the Symbol panel.Select the smiley face and click Insert.Let’s take the smiley face as an example.You can also change the font in the Font drop-down box to Symbols, Webdings, or Wingdings to get more built-in symbols, such as the smiley face, sad face, or check mark. (Delta is also under Greek and Coptic as Greek Capital Letter Delta)įollow the same steps to insert other symbols, including: Symbol Set the font to (normal text) and use the drop-down list on the right to change the subset from Standard Latin to Mathematical Operators. Let’s use the Delta example to show how you can use the symbol field.

You can resize the field if you want to see more symbols by dragging the lower right corner of the field.
